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Re: Thomas Sowell: Herman Cain More Black Than Barack Obama

Originally Posted by radcen

Actually, Sowell is one of the most fair-minded, even-handed, thoughtful columnist writing today.

Completely false. I've been reading his column for years. They're available online for any who cares to peruse them. Sowell is apparently a well-regarded economist, but his column is mostly hopeless partisanship.

Re: Thomas Sowell: Herman Cain More Black Than Barack Obama

He's a principled man. And he's right most of the time.

If you said the same thing about the Shah of Iran in 1979, you would have been right.

Too often in the past, going all the way back to the days of Woodrow Wilson, we have operated on the assumption that a bad government becomes better after the magic of "change." President Wilson said that we were fighting the First World War to make the way "safe for democracy." But what actually followed was the replacement of autocratic monarchies by totalitarian dictatorships that made previous despots pale by comparison.

Re: Thomas Sowell: Herman Cain More Black Than Barack Obama

Originally Posted by GhostlyJoe

Completely false. I've been reading his column for years. They're available online for any who cares to peruse them. Sowell is apparently a well-regarded economist, but his column is mostly hopeless partisanship.

Re: Thomas Sowell: Herman Cain More Black Than Barack Obama

Originally Posted by BWG

Did anyone else notice in the video that Sowell credited PUBLIC libraries and PUBLIC schools as being part of his early life success. Now those PUBLIC entities are being threatened by the Republicans in office with budget cuts.

Not saying Sowell is part of this group, but those that say they did it all without any PUBLIC help are only lying to themselves.

Public libraries are most likely to be done in by access to the Internet.
Public schools should be abolished. Let's have education provided as a commodity much the same way one might by a car, computer, or television. We would have many more choices for what to buy.